Roger S. Wieck

Houghton Library

Although the advent of the printing press heralded the end of the manuscript, the illuminated text still flourished through the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Many such manuscripts are works of extraordinary expressive power and have much to tell about the history of the graphic arts as well. Roger Wieck's catalogue carefully describes the extraordinary collection of graduals, breviaries, books of hours, and works of classical and vernacular literature assembled over the decades at Houghton Library.

Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library

A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "John Keats and the Exaltation of a Genius" at Houghton Library in 1995 and of the John Keats Bicentennial Conference. The catalog includes a preface by Richard Wendorf and essays by Helen Vendler and William H. Bond.

With a Catalogue of the Harvard Keats Collection

John Keats, 1795-1995

Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts

Anne Anninger

Nearly all the Spanish and Portuguese books in the Department were collected and given to the Library by the late Philip Hofer, founding Curator of the Department. They reflect his personal taste and his awareness of the historical importance of such a collection - foreword.

A Description of an Exhibition and a Bibliographical Catalogue of the Collection

Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts

Barbara Mahrenholz Wolff

Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library

A catalogue of music manuscripts from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Includes descriptions of works by Bach, Liszt, Mahler, Mozart, Purcell, Schoenberg, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and many others.

A Catalogue of Music Manuscripts from the 14th to the 20th Centuries in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library

Music Manuscripts at Harvard

Harvard's home for rare books and manuscripts opened in 1942, and thanks to the energy of a small group of librarians and the creativity and generosity of its benefactor, Arthur Houghton, it quickly emerged as a center of inquiry and memory without equal. This 1992 volume, compiled by senior Houghton librarians, blends documentary with oral history to look back on the library's origins, the growth of its collections, and the activities of the staff who made it a home for precious books and original scholarship.

A Houghton Library Chronicle, 1942-1992

Hugh Amory

A catalogue of 75 items from the Hyde Collection pertaining to Henry Fielding that were on display at an exhibition at Houghton Library in 1987.

An Exhibition of the Hyde Collection

New Books by Fielding

Collectors and Friends, Scholars and Librarians Build the Harvard College Library : an Exhibition on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Houghton Library, 1942-1992

Centuries of Books & Manuscripts

David P. Becker

"An exhibition of illustrated books from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vershbow"--Foreword.

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